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In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, snow flurries fall as Reno Aces manager Phil Nevin talks to reporters at the Triple-A baseball team’s media day at Aces Ballpark in Reno, Nev. Nevin promised to buy everyone at Reno’s Pacific Coast League opener against El Paso Thursday night a ticket to a future game if the mercury fails to top 60 degrees at first pitch. With Thursday’s high forecast in the mid-50s, he admits he’s probably “going to be buying a lot of tickets.” (AP Photo/Scott Sonner).

SAN FRANCISCO – Giants manager Bruce Bochy made the first outside hire to his staff in almost a decade, bringing aboard Phil Nevin as his third base coach while also promoting Triple-A Sacramento manager Jose Alguacil to coach first base.

The Giants made the announcements on Monday, although it was widely reported that Nevin would join Bochy’s staff after he finished as a runner-up for Arizona’s managerial job that went to Torey Lovullo.

Nevin, 45, has spent the past three seasons running the Triple-A Reno Aces in the Diamondbacks system. But his managerial experience wasn’t as much of an allure as his personality and passion – two attributes that Bochy knows well after Nevin played for him with the San Diego Padres from 1999-2005.

Nevin (45) and Alguacil (43) bring more youth to the coaching staff along with a competitive passion that the clubhouse appeared to lack at times last season. And on an aging staff, it can’t hurt to have two coaches who are a bit closer in age to the players.

Nevin replaces third base coach Roberto Kelly, who never appeared to fit after the Giants moved him to the opposite coaching box to replace Tim Flannery after the 2014 World Series Championship season. Kelly made several curious decisions to send or hold runners, but his bigger issue was a perceived indecisiveness and overall lack of attentiveness when it came to relaying signs. The Giants also had some issues with signs at first base with coach Bill Hayes, a former bullpen catcher who might be offered another position in the organization.

The Giants confirmed the rest of the staff would return for the 2017 season; bench coach Ron Wotus got a nibble or two for managerial vacancies but was not believed to be a finalist for the jobs that went to Lovullo in Arizona or Bud Black in Colorado.

Nevin was a former first overall pick in the 1992 draft out of Cal State Fullerton of the Houston Astros but was a fringe big leaguer who even converted to catching in an attempt to hold onto a roster spot with the Anaheim Angels in 1998. He came into his own when he joined the Padres in a spring training trade prior to the ’99 season and ended up hitting 156 home runs over six-plus seasons.

Nevin frequently had his battles with Bochy and then-GM Kevin Towers, once getting benched when he continued to voice his displeasure with the cavernous dimensions of San Diego’s Petco Park.

But he had proven himself an adept coach, and led Reno to an 81-63 record in his first season. Bochy has said several times that he believed Nevin would make an excellent major league manager.

Nevin is the first addition to the major league coaching staff from outside the organization since Bochy hired hitting coach Carney Lansford after the 2007 season.

Alguacil, who hails from Venezuela, spent six seasons as a minor league infielder in the Giants system before retiring to work as a roving instructor. With his bright baseball mind, upbeat demeanor and strong skills as a bilingual communicator, he has long been a coaching prospect in the system. Alguacil managed Double-A Richmond in 2015 before moving up to manager Sacramento last year.

Although video replay coach Shawon Dunston was a strong candidate to join the field staff, the promotion of Alguacil ensures that Bochy has a major league coach who speaks Spanish as a first language.

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